When the Tappan Zee Bridge constructors start using the largest floating crane in the world to lift pieces of the new bridge into place, one of the people at the controls will be a crane operator from New Rochelle.

For more than 30 years, Ron Burgess has been operating cranes at construction sites in the New York metropolitan area. He says his biggest job by far will be helping to build the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

Burgess was picked as one of the two "I Lift New York" crane operators by his local group of operating engineers. He says he has trained in Bayonne for the last five months.

The crane arrived in New York last January after completing work on the San Fransisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. There, it got its official name, "The Left Coast Lifter."

Even though the crane is now in place, work will not begin until December, when pieces will be lifted for the new bridge.

The custom-made "I Lift New York" crane cost $50 million to build.